Later Years
After his baseball career, Wakefield worked in taxes, bankruptcy courts and the steel industry. In 1983, Wakefield was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.
Wakefield died in 1985 at age 64 in Redford, Michigan.
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Famous quotes containing the word years:
“Bourbon’s the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.”
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In the dust of that little chair,
What has become of our Little Boy Blue,
Since he kissed them and put them there.”
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